Pilgrims and Puritans

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Pilgrims and Puritans

• Religious Discrimination in England
• Puritans
• Pilgrims

• Royalty allow very few religions
• Others forced to leave
• Seek to purify Church of England
• Extremists who break off of Church of England
• Move to Netherlands, but fear kids being Dutch
• Decide to move to Virginia

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Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Pilgrims
• Mayflower Compact

• Blown off course
• Settled Cape Cod in 11/ 1620
• Rules for the colony
• First attempt at self-rule in English colonies

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Massachusetts Bay

• Punished in England as dissenters (people who
  complain about govt.)
• Start Mass. Bay
• Well prepared - many tools, livestock, talented
  people, and whole families
• Traded with Pilgrims, Indians
• Kicked out those that dissented - Ironic
• Governor of Mass. Bay

• Puritans
• John Winthrope

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Connecticut

• Thomas Hooker
• Fundamental Orders of Conn.

• Founder of Conn.
• Started because Mass. Was too strict
• Still Puritan
• Allow non-church members to vote

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Rhode Island

• Roger Williams

• Puritan who found Mass. too strict
• Angry about Mass. taking Indian lands
• Starts R.I. and allows any religion
• Called colony for freaks and nuts by Mass.

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Puritan Daily Life - Strict

• Religion
• Farming
• Family Life

• Focus of life
• Very strict, tough punishments
• Grew own food, not a cash crop to be sold
• Towns are self-sufficient -everything they need
  is there
• Children are little adults
• Education is important to read Bible (by 1700,
  70 of men and 45 women can read and write)